Bacich Elementary Art Blog

Thank you to all of you who came to visit "The Bacich Box Show" on April 10. The show was a huge success! Thank you to all 1st-4th grade art docents for doing an amazing job informing our guests, and representing your grade levels.  During the month of April the Kindergarten through 4th grade students have worked on the following art projects: Kindergarten Flower Vase Still-Life 3rd grade Navajo Sand Paintings Kindergarten:     Oil Pastel Flower Vase Still-Life There are crayons... and then there are pastels! In this project, the students were introduced to the photorealist Ben Schonzeit. Students practiced flower drawing techniques. While depicting the flowers and vases on a large scale, the students also picked up basic oil pastel skills - learning how to blend by layering the intense, mixable pastel colors, shading to achieve light and dark,and using their fingers as a tool. A layered, three-dimensional effect was also a...

Please join us for the grand opening of  The Bacich Box Art Show  Open House: April 10, 2014 6:00-7:30  The Bacich Box Show Kindergarten -4 th grade The Bacich Box Show Installation is based on the “Pt. Reyes Box Show”, an annual art event organized as a fundraiser for the Art Gallery Route One in Pt.Reyes. Wooden boxes are altered and decorated by local artists and auctioned off at the closing of the event.   Our large size school community of 704 students lends itself well to create a powerful visual installation by creating our very own “Box Show”. For the Bacich Box Show students had the opportunity to alter a cardboard tissue box into an exquisite piece of art. A contemporary artist was assigned to each grade level, (please see below).   Students were guided to use the tissue box as a building block to create sculptures based on the assigned artist's work.  Artist Theme and Concept: 4th grade: Henry Mo...